The famous Albanian writer Ismail Kadare died

Kadare died of a heart attack, the hospital in Tirana said. The writer was brought to the hospital with no signs of life and doctors tried resuscitation, but he died at 8.40:XNUMX a.m. local time.

Albanian writer Ismail Kadare died this morning at the age of 89, his publisher and hospital announced today.

Kadare died of a heart attack, the hospital in Tirana said. The writer was brought to the hospital without signs of life and doctors tried resuscitation, but he died at 8.40 local time.

From his publishing house Onufri, editor Bujar Hudari confirmed that the writer died this morning.

Kadare became internationally known after the publication of the work “The General of the Dead Army” in 1963, when Albania was still ruled by the communist government of the late dictator Enver Hoxha.

He fled Albania to France in 1990, just a few months before the fall of the communist regime following student protests the previous December. He lived in Paris and recently returned to Tirana.

A sarcastic ethnographer, a writer who alternates between the grotesque and the epic, Kadare researched the myths and history of his country in order to dissect the mechanisms of universal evil, totalitarianism, writes Agence France-Presse, recalling that Albania lived for decades under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, one of the most closed in the world.

“Communist hell, like any other hell, is suffocating,” the writer said in one of his last interviews in October.

“But in literature, it turns into the force of life, the force that helps you survive, to defeat the dictatorship with your head held high,” he said at the time.

“Literature gave me everything I have today, it was the meaning of my life, it gave me the courage to resist, happiness and hope to overcome everything,” said the already weakened Kadare in a conversation at his home in Tirana, the capital of Albania .

Kadare has won numerous international awards for his works, which include more than 80 novels, plays, screenplays, poems, essays, and his works have been translated into 45 languages. He was mentioned on several occasions as a possible candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He is the author of the novels “Broken April”, “Chronicle in Stone”, “The Castle”, “General of the Dead Army”, as well as many other works and has been one of the most popular figures in Albanian literature for more than 60 years.

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